MemorySask

The vast, open prairie

BCHCC 1679
Item
[19-]

Part of Barr Colony Heritage Cultural Centre Collection

Vast, open natural prairie with small house/homestead in background.

The Robert John Boyne Family and sod barn near Biggar

98.632.01
Item
ca.1910

Part of Biggar Photograph Collection

The family of Robert John Boyne with four horses and four cows in front of a sod house

The Ritchie Family

ZE1.009
Item
[ca 1910]

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

The Ritchie family (3 men, 2 women, 6 children) and two dogs pose in front of their sod house homestead. Only identification provided lists the photo subjects as "Annie and her girls" and "Fairman and Uncle Tom."

The last wagon train

CORA-RPL-B-398
Item
ca. 191?

Part of City of Regina fonds

The last wagon train to go through Regina. 1700 block Scarth Street looking south towards 11th Avenue.

The History of the Original Halford Homestead Property NW 10-17-12-W 2nd

IHM.2020.0078
Item
2018

Part of Book Collection

A 36-page (single-sided) coil-bound book containing information on the Halford family and the area of their original homestead. It contains photo-copied documents concerning the land, followed by several copied newspaper articles and genealogical information and then photos and aerial photos of the property and farmyard.

Bowman, Dayle

The Hanna Family's Covered Wagons

97.592.24
Item
May 1908

Part of Biggar Photograph Collection

The Hanna Family standing between two covered wagons hitched to horses on trail between Saskatoon and Biggar.

The Foster pre-fabricated home

FGPC-H-P203
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Frank Glass Photograph Collection

A 1 and 1/2 storey wooden house with three people and a dog in front of it. To one side is a wagon with two horses hitched to it and one person driving it.

"The first shack in Regina"

CORA-A-1339
Item
ca. 1882

Part of City of Regina fonds

Photograph of what is believed to be the first shack in Regina, thought to be on Cornwall Street behind where the King's Hotel once stood.

The first building on Rivercourse Townsite

BCHCC 2515
Item
August 13, 1929

Part of Barr Colony Heritage Cultural Centre Collection

Image of a wooden building on the bare prairie, identified as the first building on Rivercourse Townsite

The Dollansky Family, Biggar, Saskatchewan

78.122.12
Item
ca.1914

Part of Biggar Photograph Collection

Group/Family photograph of the Dollansky Family in Biggar, Saskatchewan - two men, one woman, and one child sitting in front of a sod house

The Coulter Family

FGPC-P-P197
Item
[ca. 1906]

Part of Frank Glass Photograph Collection

Coulter family stands in front of a large teepee made of branches and a sod house. L-R: Ambrose Bee, Mrs. Coulter, Bessie Coulter (Mrs. J. Graham), Fred Hill, A. Fletcher, Hector Coulter, Jim Coulter, unknown, Jake Coulter.

Tar paper homestead shack

AG2.012
Item
1907

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Small shack, covered with tarpaper, wooden walkway, stones along side, stovepipe, banked with dirt, pot on dirt, broom against door, towels on clothesline.